WTF is dMania?

A couple of months ago I introduced dMania on the Steem blockchain. A lot of things have happened since then. The number of Steem users has grown tremendously the last couple of weeks. A lot of users don't know about dMania or other apps on the Steem blockchain besides Steemit. That's why I think it's a good time to do a recap of what dMania is all about and what the goals of dMania are in 2018.

WTF is dMania?

dMania is an app on the Steem blockchain for posting your favorite memes, funny pictures, gifs and videos. => https://dmania.lol
Because dMania is based on the Steem blockchain, you can make money by posting, commenting or upvoting posts. Just like on Steemit.

Steemit is a great platform, but it isn’t the best choice for every kind of content. Steemit is great for blog posts just like on Reddit or Medium. For other kind of content, there is a need for different platforms. That is why there are other apps on Steem like @dtube, @dsound, @dlive and @dmania.

Memes and more

For a lot of people (me included) writing blog posts isn't easy. Many aren't talented writers, their native language isn't english or they are just not interested in writing blog posts. dMania provides them an alternative with memes.
dMania is an easier entry point for users to the Steem blockchain. I tried to make posting on dMania as easy as possible. All you need is a picture and a title, that's it.

Blockchains are completely new to most people. They don't know anything about private keys, wallets, tokens, ..... Most people just don't care. What they do care about is when they suddenly get rewarded for their posts, comments and upvotes. Especially when it's as simple as posting memes. That's why I think dMania is perfect to introduce a lot of new users to the Steem blockchain.

The users control the content

At the beginning I told people dMania is about memes and funny stuff. Ultimately people can post anything they like. I don't control the content or censor any posts. Users can flag posts and if a post has received enough flags, it will be filtered.

Some people complained about reposts on dMania. Copying a meme is of course a lot easier than creating one. dMania is mainly a place for sharing content, because it is impossible to know if you are the original creator. For memes it doesn't matter. A meme is basically a joke in form of a picture. For a joke it doesn't matter who the creator is. If you hear a good joke, you share it with your friends and family. It's the same for memes. The most important thing is that they are shared.

I still believe that original content will achieve more upvotes and higher rewards. If people repost, users can still flag that post and it will quickly disappear.

dMania in 2018

In 2018 I want to introduce dMania to the rest of the world. dMania already has the most important features and I think it's awesome. Of course I will make it a lot better in 2018, but the main goal is growth. One reason why I created dMania was because I wanted to show more people what the Steem blockchain can do. The social media industry has to change. Only a few are rewarded and most people get nothing. That's not fair and we as a community have to show them that there is a better way to do it.

I have been working on dMania in my spare time so far. From now on I will be working full time on dMania.
When I focus 100% of my time on dMania it can only get better. Finally I will have time to promote dMania outside of Steem and not only focus on development.

Goals in 2018

More usersdMania has over 1000 unique visitors a day. Not so bad for a website that has lauchned only a few months ago. Most users are still coming from Steemit. That has to change. I already did some SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and I am working on the Facebook an Twitter page. I will also run some ads and spread the message of dMania and Steem.

dMania app An app for dMania would be great. A lot of users have already requested it. There are still some things missing on Steem that are very important for an app, like user friendly log in and sign up. I think those issues will be resolved in 2018. A friend of mine just joined the dMania team and he will be working on an app for dMania.

Better usability I think one of the most important things for a website is the usability. It should be easy to use. Some small features can make a big difference. I will try to make using dMania as easy and smooth as possible.

Notifications dMania already has a simple notifications feature. I want to improve it and notify users when they got big uvpotes, a lot of comments or have been selected as Chosen One. I am going to add browser notifications besides the notifications on the website.

Tag pages I will probably add tag pages on dMania when there is more content. For now I think it is not that important. There are still some technical limitations on Steem that dMania can't have it's own tags. Maybe that will change or I will find a workaround.

Follower/Following I would be really cool to follow your favorite memes posters on dMania and have your own meme feed. Unfortunately if you follow someone on Steem, you will follow him also on Steemit. Most people don't want to see on their Steemit feed a lot of memes. That's why I couldn't add that feature so far. Maybe the Steem API will allow following user per app at some point.

dMania token Will dMania get it's own SMT token? I have no idea. I need more details about SMT tokens and how they actually work to decide that. Atm everything works fine without a token, so I don't see the need.

dMania has a supporter system similar to @utopian-io. dMania supporters receive 15% of the rewards on dMania. The dMania bot uses the collected Steem Power from supporters to upvote posts on dMania. Memes usually don't receive high rewards from most users. That's why the supporter system is very important to dMania. Most rewards on dMania are generated by dMania supporters. High rewards are important to attract new users. To get more users to dMania and Steem we need more supporters.

To become a dMania supporter, you have to delegate some Steem Power to dMania. The minimum is only 5 Steem Power. The more Steem Power you delegate, the higher your rewards. By delegating Steem Power, you are lending your Steem Power to dMania. The Steem Power still belongs to you.

Please upvote, post and comment on dMania to support this project. Every single upvote counts. You can contact me on steemit.chat or discord if you find any bugs or if you have ideas for new features. Please resteem and upvote this post and tell everyone you know who likes memes about dMania. Follow @dmania and @zombee to get the latest updates about this project.

dMania is not open source atm. I am still not sure if I want to make it open source. I have to think about it.
I know there would be a lot of benefits when I open source it, but it kinda feels like giving my baby up for adoption 😆

If you edit your post on Steemit, it becomes a Steemit post. Steemit posts aren't visible on dMania.

If you edit your post on Steemit, it becomes a Steemit post. Steemit posts aren't visible on dMania.

Why? When I edit my Steepshot, Utopian or DTube post they don't become Steemit posts either. And I assume I still have to pay beneficiary rewards to dMania. So it is kind of rubbing me from what I have signed on to the moment I created the post.

If Steemit posts where visible on dMania, people could avoid paying beneficiaries like everyone else. They could create posts without pictures which would cause problems.
You can edit your title and tags on dMania, but you can't add a description. The first author comment is always sticky at the top and replaces more or less a description.

I don't see any reason why dMania should show posts from other apps. Apps on Steem should be more separated in my opinion.

No, they don't show other posts no matter what tags they use. That would be a catastrophe if that would be the case since we get hundreds of Utopian-io tags from Steemit posts every day but luckily we don't have to deal with them because they were not submitted via the platform. And vice versa they don't drop out of their platforms either when edited on Steemit either.

I am not a developer so I have no clue what you have to change but I am 100% certain that it is possible since it works there. :)

Ok I changed it and you can now edit your dMania posts on Steemit. You were probably right, it was too restrictive and other users had the same problem.
Your post is now visible on your dMania profile again.

I was in a very good mood when reading your post and then all this flagging drama kind of ruined that. That idiot flagging stuff is massively annoying.
Anyway... I am super excited about the level of development planned for dMania. I really hope you will add a feature when you can pre-upload and then schedule your memes being made public. It would certainly save time when I have a very busy day.
Also I've been posting almost daily with my meme posting account @cmmemes ( only original memes btw) and haven't received any "love" from the autobot in a long time and it's a bit discouraging ( I'm hitting the trending page consistently). Any tips? :)
Keep up the good work man!

Nice work, but I really miss the categorisation present on every old-school centralised meme-aggregation site... How about implementing dMania tag pages by allowing contributors to choose a tag "extension" for their post?

On Steemit, it would look something like this:

dmania:[page name]

The "dmania:" part should help keep Steemit tidy and separate meme-tags from blog-posts. Who knows: if dMania really takes off, this might be needed someday.

Let's say I want to make a post about cats. While submitting my image, I would be presented with an input box that allows me to choose the dMania page I want to post on (I suggest limiting the number of extension-tags on a single dMania post to one). When I type in "cats", my post gets tagged with "dmania" and "dmania:cats" upon submission, and appears on both dMania's homepage page and its "cats" page, the latter displaying all posts tagged with both "dmania" and "dmania:cats" (and use the post ranking from the "dmania:cats" tag) while the homepage would still list every post with a tagline starting with "dmania" (like it does now, presumably).

But why wouldn't the "cats" page simply display all posts tagged with "dmania:cats"? This way, posts submitted with the category-tag as their primary tag (lacking the "dmania" primary tag) would not be displayed on the tag pages. If it were otherwise, dMania's home page might fall apart: because Steemit categories prioritise posts that list the category first, posts with a tagline starting with "dmania:cats" would get a preferential treatment on the "cats" page and skip the homepage altogether. This would make dMania kinda broken, if you asked me.

Lastly, while this system would also work with a limited number of categories chosen through a drop-down menu, free input seems like a more efficient and decentralised solution. Like Steemit, dMania would display the most popular tags in a sidebar, that would work like the one on Steemit but only display tags starting with "dmania:": another good reason for using a prefix.

Thanks for your great feedback. Atm dMania is still tied to Steemit and most users want the visibility and upvotes from Steemit. That's why users can choose their own tags.
It probably won't stay like that. There are still some technical limitations why dMania can't have it's own tags. For example I can only query the most popular Steem tags. I probably would have to track dMania tags myself or create predefined tags.

For the moment I think dMania is fine like it is. 9GAG for example had millions of users before they added tag pages. I will work on it when there are more users and posts.

I think dmania is one of the world's biggest "laughter" companies, they are able to produce laughter in every face of their users with very funny memes, this is amazing. I will join and share laughter with you all.

I have been using your site for a while and got even some of my friends on it. Its really nice to use and i have actually been getting new people checking out my DANK MEMES! Thank you for your hard work!

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I congratulate you for the achievements, that each of the goals of this year materialize. I agree with you although I like to write there are moments that I do not feel inspired and what better way to represent what you feel through an image.

@zombee, I congratulate you for to create a so useful application... Humor is something very necesary in the live and memes are the homoristic posts by exellence.. I'm very new in Steemit but I will support you in mesure of my possiblilities, I will following you, I will sharing your posts and using the app.

Not undermining your efforts but mostly copied memes from other websites, not even a new one but a year or so old (million years in meme time) occupy hot and trending. Hopefully you guys are doing something about it. Good job apart from that. Thank you.

i dont get it and after 3 paragraphs of nothingness i scrolled to the bottom.

Still no clue, starting to think its another mafia style "community" but im prolly wrong as i wasent willing to read a book to find out.

You say its on steemit but its not?
Get paid to post gifs and memes so you can post them on steemit and take a cut?
IDK... i give up as no one can give a simple answer its all drawn out self contradicting dribble never actually answering any of my questions.

Another get paid for being part of a collective scam?
Get paid a cut for your work because dmainia gets upvotes from the other mob communitys?

I think the idea that your someone newer then me saying memes arent sutible on steemit when the people making memes are doing just that because it is the only thing the whales will let us post if we dont want to have our accounts killed again.

Yep 15% to dMania supporters and 10% to dMania.
Did not try to write the FAQ intentionally vague, it's just a little bit complicated.
Curators rewards are not really 25% for example, they are something between 0-25%. On average they are 15% on Steem.
The calculation is like that for author rewards: Total rewards - curation rewards (0-25%) - dMania supporter rewards(15%) - dMania rewards(10%)

I want to make memes on dmania one of my niches!! But I am really worried about one thing, I have read that people who follow you, their feeds will be filled with my memes. Do you think that is a good idea? And, how is it going to look in the long run?

I am new to demania. I have problem not understand it: when I am on my steem account here and find demania post, I click on ( view post in demania) , I am transferred to main demania app /page .. I am asked to authorize demania to ( take my voting role) before I can continue! Which I don’t understand. Is it a must I authorize demania taking my posting and voting role??
I appreciate your help to make me start !

I understand your position but why you downvote a fresh post, your rule to not allow post older than 3.5 days is okay every stakeholder can choose to do what you want with their stake.
Flag posts upvoted in last days, not this fresh posts ...
I'm in transition to change the max age for posts, not because of you but to prevent spam at all.
Follow your position and not downvote fresh posts or you are just hypocrite and twist the situation to justify your worst actions.

This is getting ridiculous. I am using upvote bots maybe every 2 weeks to promote 1 post. @GrumpyCat your bot sucks and is useless. You downvote people who don't deserve it. Create a useful bot next time.

Really you give yourself a $180 upvote on your comment and hijack my post?
Really? And you want to preserve the reward pool and make Steem a fair platform? You are the worst hypocrite I have ever seen.

I haven't read your posts? Why should I? Is that suddenly mandatory to read your posts? Because of your useless shitty bot people are scared to even post and promote their posts. This downvote/flagging war doesn't help at all and only scares new users away.

I am trying to build a great app on Steem. I want to bring new users to Steem. How many new users have your bot brought to Steem? Hmm? Zero? Probably even scared some people away. Please create something useful. Everyone can create a shitty spamming downvote bot.

I have read it. Have you read my post before flagging it? I don't think so.
Flagging my posts is one thing, but giving your comments $200 upvotes is another. I hate hypocrites. Stop saying your are trying to save the reward pool while you actually raping it.

Well the upvote for his comment are to push it to the top so everyone can see it. He does mention "From now on Bid-bots that are not GumpyCompliant are to be used exclusively to profit from the reward pool (not post promotion). That's already about 95% of what they are being used for so it shouldn't make much of a difference to them!"
While his method are do see harsh he following an radical way of change.
The best way to hurt a company is to hurt its customer. @GrumpyCat "enemy" is bots that help people abuse the reward pool.
With people stop using their service the bots/companies will be forced to change.
The best nope. But it one of the fastest ways to force bots to do change.
booster and jerry banfield changed its policy bc of grumpy cat.